TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gorringe, Timothy
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TI  - God's Just Vengeance
T2  - Cambridge Studies in Ideology and Religion
SN  - 0521557623, 9780521557627
U1  - 261.8336 
CY  - UK
KW  - Reconciliation
KW  - Sin
KW  - Violence -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
N2  - This book examines the relationship between the theologies of atonement and penal strategies. Christian theology was potent in Western society until the nineteenth century, and the so-called ""satisfaction theory"" of the atonement interacted and reacted with penal practice. Gorringe argues that atonement theology created a structure of affect that favored retributive policies. He reviews theory and practice in the twentieth century, and makes concrete proposals for both theology and criminal and societal violence
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